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Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.

Tyson Foods (
TSN) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Tyson Foods rose 27 cents (1.6%) to $16.81 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3.6 million shares of Tyson Foods exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of six million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $16.47-$17 after having opened the day at $16.51 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $16.54. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were:
John B. Sanfilippo & Son (
JBSS), up 19.7%,
Pilgrims Pride (
PPC), up 5.8%,
Golden (
GLDC), up 5.5%, and
Amira Nature Foods (
ANFI), up 5.1%.

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Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and marketing of chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods, and related allied products worldwide. Tyson Foods has a market cap of $4.83 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.4, equal to the average food & beverage industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 19.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Tyson Foods a buy, four analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tyson Foods as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share.